Would Be Quotes - Page 100

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.

Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.

I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.

If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.

I would be a vegetarian if the food was better.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.

I would be happy to run a race with Hillary Clinton any time.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.